>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Petzold <jpetzold@earthlink.net> writes: Jeremy> well, officialy, ACPI does not exist in Linux, however, there is Jeremy> a kernel patch for it and it will be in the 2.6 kernel due out Jeremy> art the begining of next year. as far as the powerdown Jeremy> functionality of the ACPI function, I do not know, I needed ACPI Jeremy> to get sound and that is all I care about. I am sure it works Jeremy> however. There *is* ACPI support in the current stable kernels. But the ACPI subsystem is being rewritten in 2.5, so there is some incompatability. (Not that there are many applications that support ACPI anyways.) You can fetch backports of the 2.5 version to 2.4 at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi>. To the OP: Right now, though, Linux ACPI support isn't as good as Windows, because the ACPI standard is poorly documented and poorly implemented. There is also a strange thing that if the chipset doesn't implement certain features (such as hibernation), it is up to the operating system to implement it. The best thing to do is to try it out for yourself. (I haven't managed to get ACPI to work on my laptop yet (ThinkPad R30), trying both the standard 2.4 support, and the 2.5 backport.) If it doesn't work, you can try APM if your laptop supports it. You might not get as much power savings as you would with ACPI, but you'll probably be able to suspend, at least. -- Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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